PSA 1978 : proceedings of the 1978 biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Vol. 1, Contributed papers.

Door: Asquith, Peter D. & Ian Hacking (eds.)

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• ISBN: 9780917586064
• Uitgever: East Lansing : Philosophy of Science Association, 1978. Orig. cloth binding. 313 pp. Library stamp. Conditie: goed
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• Details: Conditie: goed. PHILOSOPHY
• Extra informatie: Contents : Part 1. History of Philosophy of Science. -- Perception and Primary Qualities. Nancy Maull. -- The Development of Kant's Conception of Scientific Explanation. Edward MacKinnon. -- John Stuart Mill, John Herschel, and the 'Probability of Causes'. John V. Strong. -- Part 2. Philosophy of Physics -- Non-Local Hidden Variable Theories and Bell's Inequality. Jeffrey Bub, and Vandana Shiva. -- The Only Real Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics. Nancy Cartwright. -- A Universal Axiomatization of Kinematical Theories. Carlo Giannoni. -- Part 3. Observation and Theory -- The Interplay between Theory and Observation in the Solar Model of Hipparchus and Ptolemy. Kathleen Okruhlik. -- Theory-Ladenness and Theory Comparison. William B. Jones. -- Observationality: Quine and the Epistemological Nihilists. P. William Bechtel & Eric Stiffler. --Analyticity without an Observational-Theoretical Distinction. Mark G. Tamthai. -- Part 4. Case Studies with Applications to the Philosophy of Science. -- The Role of Psychology in Functional Localization Research. Barbara V.E. Klein. -- Scientific Problems and Constraints. Thomas Nickles. -- Discoveries and the Emergence of New Fields in Science. Lindley Darden -- Part 5. Explanation. -- Explanation and Subsumption. Robert Cummins. -- Reasons, Causes, and Empathetic Understanding. J.K. Derden, Jr. -- Approximative Explanation. T.R. Girill. -- Part 6. Aspects of Rationality. -- Four Contributions Values Can Make to the Objectivity of Social Science. Sandra G. Harding. -- Four Basic Concepts of Medical Science. Caroline Whitbeck. -- Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience. Paul R. Thagard. -- Rhetoric and Scientific Rationality. Maurice A. Finocchiaro. -- Part 7. Quantum Logic. -- The Metalogic of Quantum Logic. Peter Mittelstaedt. -- A Role for Categories in the Foundations of Quantum Theory. David Geoffrey Holdsworth. -- Only If Quanta Had Logic. James H. McGrath. -- Part 8. Applications of Statistical Ideas. -- On The Likelihood Principle and a Supposed Antinomy. Barry Loewer, Robert Laddaga, & Roger Rosenkrantz. -- Belief and the Incremental Confirmation of One Hypothesis Relative to Another. Andre Mirabelli. -- Salmon, Statistics, and Backwards Causation. David PapinL209eau.
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